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Article: Vitamin D & cancer.(QUICK STUDIES)(Vitamin D as cancer treatment)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Vitamin D and calcium seemed to cut the risk of cancer in a study that was designed to see if the supplements could prevent bone fractures.
Researchers gave 1,179 Nebraska women over age 55 daily doses of vitamin D (1,100 International Units) plus calcium (1,400 to 1,500 milligrams), calcium alone, or a placebo. After four years, cancers (most often breast) were diagnosed in 7 percent of the women who took the placebo, 4 percent of the women who took calcium alone, and just 2 percent of the women who took both vitamin D and calcium.
What to do: This study had too few cancers to be the final word on whether ...